I was recently asked to consider how the new surveillance is (or might) operate in the era of networked Things. It’s not a hard one to think through, but I reflected upon the role that visual surveillance has played in reshaping and refashioning physical space and thought — maybe visual surveillance doesn’t mat…

The divide that separates people from their online lives:

Tom Armitage gave a great talk this morning at Etech titled “Is Controller Design Killing Creativity.”

So, when I first tapped this into Ecto a few days ago, I had just given my talk at O’Reilly Etech on Pervasive Electronic Games. I was burning a few minutes before the EFF presentation and jammed it in, went to upload a PDF of my slides and I couldn’t create a new directory on my server. I tailed /var/log/messages a…

Fabien just IM’d in this bit of codeable candy — the TrackStick. What is it? It’s a stick that knows where it is. It has some Spimey characteristics — it tracks where it goes, and it remembers where it’s been. That’s pretty much it. The Track Stick records its own location, time, date, speed, heading and altitude…

I have been pondering with Nicolas and others a series of usage scenarios for Things (networked objects) that could make the aggregate effects of themselves legible through the great disseminator — the Internet. That is, turning things that are invisible and perhaps incomprehensible into the visible and semantical…

I didn’t think I could get two of these in under 24 hours — and lead to them from the same colleague, but Francois diligently commented on the Flickr page from one of the images for Idiom No. 1 with another design challenge.

Francois is just freshly back from a trip to India to kick it with that sub-continents introduction of the Aspen Institute — I guess they’re franchising or something.

The Annenberg Center for Communication (ACC) at the University of Southern California invites applications for up to eight postdoctoral positions and one visiting scholar position. These Visiting Research fellows will take part in a major multi-disciplinary research initiative to explore the “The Meaning of the Ne…